Fire Talk With Me

Katie Hasty from HitFix joins Allison and Jeremy to talk about why Bobby doesn't get no swag, and where to enter the best pageants.

Covered here: Episode 26 (27 including The Pilot, or S02E19)

• Katie Hasty is on Twitter. Expand your horizons and follow her. For that matter, her writing at HitFix is essential.
• You know, stuff like Immaculate Noise.
• Jeremy has a piece on Steven Soderbergh in this week's New York Magazine. Go get it.

Critic and not-Allison Todd Gilchrist joins Jeremy to talk about the episode where Twin Peaks turns things back around, restoring the faith of fans in a single episode.

Covered here: Episode 25 (26 including The Pilot, or S02E18)

• Todd is on Twitter and Instagram

Writer/producer/man of many hats Jeff Katz joins Allie & Jeremy to talk about how Twin Peaks is the reason that modern TV shows we think are great have the license to be so in the first place.

Cameo by Billy Zane. No, seriously...sort of.

Covered here: Episode 24 (25 including The Pilot, or S02E17)

• Jeff Katz is on Twitter, but he hasn't posted since 2012.
• This is his IMDb.
• An example of the promos Jeff mentions.

Brock Wilbur is our first-ever return guest (he previously appeared on our first Special), and he rejoins Allie & Jeremy at a critical moment.

Covered here: Episode 23 (24 including The Pilot, or S02E16)

• Brock is on Twitter. See above for an example of his work there. He's also on Instagram and YouTube at the same @BrockWilbur username.
• Brock is also a .com and a .net.

Matt Oswalt watched every episode with his parents and brother when he was young. This explains so much. Here, we cover the episode directed by Diane Keaton, and Allie reveals what is sure to be one of her most controversial opinions...with regard to corn-based snacks.

overed here: Episode 22 (23 including The Pilot, or S02E15)

• Matt Oswalt is on Twitter, and is the genius behind PUDDIN'
• We also launch our second contest, where you are challenged to illustrate how you imagine "Owllie" looks. There is no prize other than internet fame.

Film critic and writer Damon Houx is finally rewarded for making himself scarce for the podcast’s entire run until now. Your reward is that Allie watched a David Lynch movie in addition to this episode, and she reveals more about her Lynchian music-making plans.

Crack open a Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Episode 21 (22 including The Pilot, or S02E14).

• Damon Houx is on Twitter, has written for a swath of sites including Screen Crush among others, and did some of the best film writing of the era as Andre Dellamorte on CHUD
• Blue Velvet
• The Straight Story
• Damon mentions that he thinks Straight Story evokes a director named "Ozu". He means Yasujirō Ozu.
• Moisés, who produces Fire Talk With Me and runs ESN, started a comprehensive retrospective series geared toward people who don't know Ozu called Cinema Ozu in 2010, which he revised and restarted in 2012 as Discovering Ozu.
• In 2015, Ozu is getting some dedicated airtime on ESN. Listen to Criterion Collected for more soon.

Actor/raconteur/bon-vivant Noah Segan joins Allie and Jeremy to talk about an episode that he has not seen in many years. In the same way that Episode 20 opens in a semi-surreal dreamscape, the format you know and love is thrown entirely out the window in this back-from-hiatus episode of the show.

Episode 20 (21 including The Pilot, or S02E13).

• Noah Segan is on Twitter, and knows an inordinate amount about the enormous situation between David Duchovny's legs.
• If you've not seen Brick or Looper, we're officially ashamed of you.
• Noah also writes cross-country road trip travelogues that make the rest of us miserable about our square life choices we make while a man is out there living with his lady and a dog and adventure.

Writer/comedian Julia Prescott almost joins the show as a regular co-host, pushing either Allie or Jeremy out in a dramatic ouster (or not, or does she?)! Find out who dies so that she can reign supreme! Also: can/should we accept the transition to Tame Flannel Cooper?

In this podcast, the gang discusses Episode 19 (20 including The Pilot, or S02E12).

• Julia Prescott is on twitter and Facebook and tumblr.
• Julia is playing NYC December 9-15th 2014. Go see that sweet sweet freelance comedy!

Alex Hirsch created Disney XD's Gravity Falls, which does not owe its origins to Twin Peaks, despite what you might assume! He joins Allison and Jeremy to discuss filler, and how to do it without boring an audience.

In this podcast, the gang discusses Episode 18 (19 including The Pilot, or S02E11).

• Alex Hirsch (twitter) created Gravity Falls and does voices on it. If this is the first time you're hearing about Gravity Falls, it's because you've very quickly forgotten our second Special, with the brilliant Mr. Josh Weinstein.
• Full episodes of Gravity Falls are posted on the official site.

DC Pierson is an author, actor, and, in a first for one of our guests, just-as new to Twin Peaks as Allie! He joins Allison and Jeremy to discuss the first episode to come after another landmark moment in the series.

In this podcast, the gang discusses Episode 17 (18 including The Pilot, or S02E10).

• DC Pierson (twitter, tumblr) is the author of Crap Kingdom and The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To.
• If you haven't seen Mystery Team yet, guess what? You have something to do before you see any other movie.